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Adrian Dix gives companies an escape hatch on making LNG plant carbon 'net-zero'

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B.C. energy minister Adrian Dix says way is clear for LNG Canada expansion that would double production in next few years .

Dix was responding to comments made by Pierre Poilievre this week by the federal Conservative leader.

He forecast that expansion would be “impossible” under the Liberal government’s cap on emissions from natural gas-powered facilities.

On taking office in 2022 , Premier David Eby courted climate activists, including ousted leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai .

“We cannot continue to expand fossil fuel infrastructure and hit our climate goals,” he said at the time.

The targets are still there. But they don’t apply to the phase 2 expansion of LNG Canada .

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